Interactive Map: How Gerrymandering Will Skew the 2018 Election

[CousinIT]

https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/mapping-how-gerrymandering-will-affect-2018-vote

The results won’t reflect what voters want. That underlines the urgent need for fair maps.

October 18, 2018

The stakes for this year’s midterms could hardly be higher. And yet, the results almost certainly won’t come close to accurately reflecting the will of voters.

According to most analyses, Democrats will need to win the nationwide congressional vote by a substantial margin just to win a bare majority of House seats. That’s in large part because of extreme Republican gerrymanders in several big states. The Brennan Center’s interactive map, created with our partners at Development Seed, shows the effect of those gerrymanders on election results.

Fortunately, there’s a solution: reforming the redistricting process to strengthen rules on fairness, or even taking map-drawing out of the hands of partisan lawmakers altogether. In fact, initiatives to do just that are on the ballot in several states this fall. By using fair maps, we can ensure that election results reflect what voters actually want.

[FakeNoose]

1. Pennsylvania was redrawn this year

They don't have any "historic" numbers to go by in PA because previous elections are irrelevant to this year's election. Many of the previously red districts are now expected to go blue and several more are a tossup.

It does pay for individual states to fight this madness. The GOP will cheat any way they can to win. Don't let them do it. We need constant vigilance and constantly assuming the worst.

[CousinIT]

2. Agree. Districts should be drawn by impartial non-political committees - should be Fed law.

No exceptions.

I love all your .gifs in your sig line. Mind if I borrow a few? Or, all?

[FakeNoose]

3. Thanks CousinIT

Anything I post on DU is up for grabs. Most of my gifs and pics have been harvested from the Google universe anyway.
I'm happy to share with my friends.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. a tsunami should flush the shit out

Keep flushing until we get sensible, moral people in the state government offices.

[Vinca]

5. Trevor Noah of all people had an interesting idea to cure the gerrymandering problem.

Democrats should register as Republicans. It would totally skew their carefully plotted districts. Dems would, of course, still vote for Dems. I can't imagine actually doing it, though. It would be like injecting yourself with syphilis to see if penicillin really works.